{"id":8884,"date":"2015-06-06T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2015-06-06T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T14:41:05","slug":"crisis-and-the-politics-of-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8884","title":{"rendered":"Crisis and the Politics of Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/06\/05\/crisis-and-the-politics-of-possibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crisis and the Politics of Possibility<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><strong>The Marketplace Belongs Only to Those Who Can Pay For It<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainauthorstyle\">Following in the tradition of his father and Bill Clinton before him, in 2003 George W. Bush launched a \u2018liberal\u2019 war to, in the words of the agreed upon rationales; protect the \u2018homeland\u2019 from attack and remove a dangerous tyrant from office. Enlisted in selling the \u2018war of liberation\u2019 were liberal hawks who apparently believed, against considerable history, that the American military is a force of liberation and trusting feminists who believed, against considerable history, that exporting Western liberalism at the point of a gun would free women from religious patriarchy to realize themselves. Reliably, the result was grim destruction beyond the imagination of most mere mortals\u2014 the only liberation that took place was of one million Iraqis from their mortal coils.<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-text\">\n<p>The point isn\u2019t retrospective finger pointing, but rather to pin down where liberal goals departed from the social mechanisms that were believed to support them? Part of the calamity generation resulted from people\u2014 American liberals, who were free to have opinions without bearing their consequences. The sympathetic frame put forward was of \u2018speaking for the voiceless,\u2019 many of whom apparently believed the American liberation myth themselves. But the more serious shortcoming was in not understanding the motivations of the political leadership, the nature of the corporations and other economic interests seeking to benefit from war and the complexity of the social relations that were destroyed. Put differently, the conception of \u2018freedom\u2019 at work left unconsidered the divergent interests; military contractors, infrastructure rebuilders and multinational oil companies, whose life-blood is economic plunder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis and the Politics of Possibility The Marketplace Belongs Only to Those Who Can Pay For It Following in the tradition of his father and Bill Clinton before him, in 2003 George W. Bush launched a \u2018liberal\u2019 war to, in the words of the agreed upon rationales; protect the \u2018homeland\u2019 from attack and remove a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[338,2875,483,528,561,827,844,862],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-freedom","tag-liberals","tag-liberty-2","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-neocons","tag-united-states","tag-us-military","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}